Product Description: This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party...read more

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Product Description: The liberalization of political and intellectual life in China and the rise of Tibetan exile communities throughout the world have produced a resurgence of spoken and written Tibetan. These developments, together with increasing contacts between Western scholars and Tibetans, have created a widening circle of English-speakers—in government, business, academia, and elsewhere—who need to speak or write Tibetan with precision and clarity...read more

Product Description: This beautifully illustrated book offers the first inside view of how the breakup of the Soviet bloc has affected this farthest republic and its nomadic peoples. The first Western scholars to be given permission to conduct fieldwork in Mongolia, Melvyn Goldstein and Cynthia Beall lived among a community of herders to study how they were adapting to Mongolia's transition to democracy and a market economy...read more

Practice tests with answers and explanations help students prepare for special, private, and parochial high school entrance exams

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Product Description: This indispensable phrasebook will solve most of your basic language problems in Tibet. As very little English is used in Tibet and dialects vary throughout the region, Tibetan script has been included to assist you. So whether you are trekking, sightseeing, eating, or at a market or hotel, communication with the Tibetans should be no proble...read more